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Teamwork Skills US Embassy Soft Skills Series
Nick Yinger, MA
Doctoral Student
Teaching Assistant, Global Leadership Center at Ohio University
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Agenda
Vital Teamwork Skills
The Team Leader
Dealing with Problems
Yourself as a Teammate
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Vital Teamwork Skills
Communication
Hard Work
Patience
Compromise
Commitment
Professionalism
Any others?
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Communication
Listen
Everybody has input
Analyze successes and failures
Demand honesty
◦ Why honesty?
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Hard Work
Setting high
expectations
The drive to go
above and beyond
Willpower to fight
through problems
What is 20-60-20?
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Patience
Don’t take criticism personally
Remain positive
◦ Don’t complain
Different team members are at different levels
◦ Everybody can contribute
Be prepared to fail – and to accept it
Are you OK with failure?
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Compromise
You can’t always win
Accept that others’ ideas may be better
Avoid ego trips – everybody has them
How do you avoid ego trips?
Ego trip (N)- an act undertaken to draw attention to
your own importance and overconfidence
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Commitment
“We” not “I”
Push through
difficulties
Finish the job you
start
Respect
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Professionalism
Focus on the task at hand
Don’t complain about what the job is
◦ Get the job done
Work should be fun
How can fun be professional?
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Being a Team Leader
Be prepared for anything & everything
Understand strengths and weaknesses
◦ Don’t try to be somebody else
Delegate wisely
Have a vision
◦ See it through
Accept criticism
Mission, Men, Me
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Dealing with Difficult Teammates
Understand the person
Anybody can be a bad teammate
What steps do you take?
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WHAT KIND OF TEAMMATE ARE YOU?
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Lion
Strengths – Visionary,
practical, productive,
strong-willed, independent,
decisive
Weaknesses – Cold,
domineering, unemotional
self-sufficient, unforgiving,
sarcastic
Otter
Strengths – Outgoing,
responsive, warm, friendly,
talkative, enthusiastic,
compassionate
Weaknesses –
Undisciplined,
unproductive, hyperbolic,
egocentric, unstable
Golden Retriever
Strengths – Calm, easy-
going, dependable, quiet,
objective, diplomatic,
humorous
Weaknesses – Selfish,
stingy, procrastinator,
unmotivated, indecisive,
fearful, worrier
Beaver
Strengths – Analytical,
self-disciplined, industrious,
organized, sacrificing
Weaknesses – Moody,
self-centered, touchy,
negative, unsociable, critical
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WHAT DOES YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE VALUE?
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HOW DOES YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE AFFECT YOUR TEAM?
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WHY SHOULD WE KNOW
OUR TEAMMATES’
PERSONALITIES?